Parque de Castrelos s/n. 36210 Vigo- Pontevedra.
Located within the park of Castrelos of Vigo (Pontevedra) which the river Lagares runs through, this ancestral home is today a museum and a public park, just as its last owner, D.Fernando Quiñones de León, Marquis of Alcedo, wished on donating it.
It was him and his wife, the VIII Marchioness of Valladares, who at the end of the XIX Century decided to reform the old ancestral home, trusting the transformation of the surrounding orchards to a well known gardening firm from Oporto.
Many different styles are to be seen in the garden, which is on three levels and has a copse. It is representative of various European gardens of that period.
Beginning with the upper level is The Rose Garden, a walk which looks over the rest of the garden. All the different varieties of roses were exhibited on metallic arches. Stone busts, sculptures and a pavilion that used to be a greenhouse complete it.
Coming down a step, and at the same level as the ancestral home is the French Garden, with a symmetrical layout, flowerbeds and myrtle hedges. All of it is balanced and proportioned following the fashion of French baroque gardens.
And on the lower level, in contrast with the previous, is the English Garden, where an extensive meadow, winding paths and a central lake with ducks give it a freer and more natural image, typical of the romanticism of the eighteenth century.
A historical garden and botanical route at the same time, the different informative signs will help us recognise some of the largest and oldest specimens from Galicia such as the camellia of the French garden, aproximately 200 years old, or the magnolias in the English garden.
